Snacks

Chipotle sauce – spicy smoky versatile dressing for meat, vegetables, salads

October 20, 2012
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I gave this sauce to Nicola mixed in the black-eye bean salad last weekend, and to Monica  to add it to her fish dish this weekend and both of them raved about this sauce.  Monica who loves everything chili would happily add it to all her food.  A very versatile sauce can be used to […]

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Roasted fennel hummus (humous) with fennel and coriander seed flavoured oil

September 26, 2012
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It was Max who gave me the idea of making roasted fennel hummus, when I posted my roasted fennel mayonnaise he wondered if he could make it vegan by replacing the mayonnaise with tahini, lemon juice and water…which obviously made my brain immediately turn to the idea of hummus.  I ate this portion of fennel hummus […]

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Mooli Rolls – Crudités Rolls (gluten-free)

September 2, 2012
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I have copied the idea for these rolls from Marks and Spencer.  I ate their version a few weeks ago and thought it was a great pretty idea of eating vegetables than the normal crudité stick shapes.  I’ve served them here with a fatless soy dip but you could serve them with any glorious rich […]

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Bolinhos de Bacalhau – Salt Cod Fish Cakes

February 6, 2012
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In Portugal the national food is bacalhau, salt cod, there are hundreds of recipes and the older generations would happily eat it once a week if not more.  It’s not a cheap food anymore, what was once a way of preserving fish through necessity it now commands a good price which is why when buying […]

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Carrot top “pataniscas”

August 23, 2011
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I had bought a bunch of pretty yellow and red carrots at the farmers’ market and decided to use them in salads to best show off their colour.  The tops were still vibrant and fresh looking and rather than doing the normal of throwing them in the bin I remembered Carl had twittered his recipe […]

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Tortilla Espanola – Spanish Omelette

May 12, 2011
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I absolutely love tortilla Española.  It’s important I make it clear how much I love it because it will explain how pedantic I am about it and how it’s made.  The other person in my family who’s also very found of it is my mother.  Both my mother and I have had appalling versions of […]

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Nuts in Palm Sugar & Pimentón

January 26, 2011
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Do you have ingredients lying around on your cupboard shelves which haven’t been used for a while?  That’s what happen here I had a tub of palm sugar, had used it a few times for Far Eastern recipes and then forgot about it.  I wanted to use some nuts for snacking and looking through my […]

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Work In Progress: Gluten Free CornCakes

October 7, 2010
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I’ve been obsessed with fresh corn throughout this summer, I have these food obsessions from time to time.  It has coincided with my discovery that you can microwave fresh corn in its husks in just 3 minutes or if already peeled on a plate with clingfilm.  This gives me the time to throw a salad […]

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